Gio Reyna scores for Borussia Dortmund on his 1st Bundesliga start of the season

DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Gio Reyna scored for Borussia Dortmund on his first Bundesliga start of the season on Sunday, but it wasn't enough for a win.

Former Dortmund player Jacob Bruun Larsen struck in stoppage time to earn Hoffenheim a 1-1 draw.

Reyna's goal came after he stopped an attempted clearance with his chest, then rifled the ball inside the top right corner to give Dortmund the lead right after the break.

It was also Reyna’s first goal of the season.

The 22-year-old American made his first start of the season on Wednesday in Dortmund’s 3-2 loss to Barcelona in the Champions League.

Dortmund coach Nuri Sahin evidently felt Reyna had done enough to merit another start four days later.

Reyna had been hampered by injuries in recent seasons.

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Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna, right, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna, right, celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna, left, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna, right, celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna, right, celebrates with teammate Karim Adeyemi after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna, right, celebrates with teammate Karim Adeyemi after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and TSG Hoffenheim at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 15 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Palestinian medics said Monday an Israeli strike killed at least 10 people, including a family of four, in Gaza City overnight.

This comes as mourners gathered for the funeral of a Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera who was killed in a strike on a point for Gaza’s civil defense agency Sunday.

The Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7 last year when Hamas militants stormed southern Israel, killing some 1, 200 people and taking another 250 hostage. Israel responded with heavy bombardment and a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, leaving nearly 45,000 Palestinians dead, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Meanwhile, a UK-based war monitor says Israeli airstrikes early Monday hit missile warehouses in Syria and called it the “most violent strikes” since 2012.

Israel has been pounding what it says are military sites in Syria after the dramatic collapse of President Bashar Assad’s rule, wiping out air defenses and most of the arsenal of the former Syrian army. Israeli troops have also seized a border buffer zone, sparking condemnation, with critics accusing Israel of violating the 1974 ceasefire and possibly exploiting the chaos in Syria for a land grab.

The Assad family’s rule, which lasted more than half a century, collapsed just over a week ago following a stunning rebel advance. This has renewed fears of regional instability as the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza shows no signs of halting and hostilities between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah continue despite a ceasefire.

The new Syrian administration, led by the former insurgents who toppled Assad, has complained to the U.N. Security Council about the Israeli bombardment and incursions into Syrian territory in the Golan Heights. However, it has also said it does not want a military confrontation with Israel.

Here is the latest:

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike killed at least 10 people, including a family of four, in Gaza City overnight, Palestinian medics said Monday, as Israel pursued its 14-month war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

The strike late Sunday hit a house in Gaza City’s eastern Shijaiyah neighborhood, according to the Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service. Rescuers recovered the bodies of 10 people from under the rubble, including those of two parents and their two children, it said.

DAMASCUS, Syria — The U.S. embassy in Damascus advised Americans to leave Syria, saying the security situation there continues to be volatile and unpredictable with armed conflict and “terrorism throughout the country."

The embassy, which has been closed since 2012, posted a statement on X, warning U.S. citizens who are unable to leave the country to prepare “contingency plans for emergency situations.” It didn't give further details.

The statement also said that the U.S. government is unable to provide any routine or emergency consular services to U.S. citizens and those who need “emergency assistance to depart should contact the U.S. Embassy in the country they plan to enter.”

Sleeper cells of the Islamic State group have claimed responsibility for deadly attacks over the past months in different parts of Syria. Despite their defeat in March 2019, the extremists still pose a threat in the war-torn country.

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported early Monday that Israeli airstrikes pounded missile warehouses and other former Syrian army sites along Syria’s coast in the “most violent strikes in the Syrian coast region since the beginning of the (Israeli) strikes in 2012.”

The Israeli military declined to comment on the strikes.

The observatory said that “violent explosions” were heard in the coastal city of Tartous “as a result of the successive strikes and the flying of ground-to-ground missiles from the warehouses.”

FILE - Israeli soldiers cross the security fence moving towards the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File )

An Israeli bulldozer maneuvers on the buffer zone near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria, viewed from the town of Majdal Shams, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

An Israeli armoured vehicle crosses the security fence moving towards the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)